Chapter 234: Assassination, Scheming, and the World of Ninjas (3K+)
Main Quest 1: Prevent the leakage of Konoha's top-secret intelligence and prevent the outbreak of war.
The woman codenamed Catherine maintained a defensive stance while continuously pinpointing the coordinates of ninjas attempting to conceal themselves in the darkness.
Chaos was firing wildly, and this formation quickly made their position a priority target for the enemy's attacks.
But Catherine showed no reaction to the shuriken and kunai attacks. She saw herself as a High-ranking Reincarnator, and while she wasn't confident fighting against a monster like Tao Bai Bai, facing these nameless story characters was…
"As easy as pie!"
Catherine suddenly turned, her optical binoculars automatically floating in front of her, and her free left hand pushed out towards outside the room.
Boom!
A powerful impact instantly erupted, and the wooden wall immediately exploded, turning into thousands of fine wooden fragments that shot out into the darkness.
Two ninjas who had silently crept up were instantly sent flying. The one in front was instantly pierced by the wooden fragments, while the one behind exploded into a puff of smoke.
But Catherine's eyelids drooped, and she said coldly,
"11 o'clock direction."
Bang, bang, bang, bang…
A terrifying mechanical storm instantly swept over. Chaos, due to continuously holding down the trigger and wildly emptying bullets, felt his adrenaline surge, causing his facial expressions to lose control. He opened his mouth, pupils dilated, and laughed unconsciously.
"Die, die, die! Times have changed, ninjas!"
The ninja wearing a dark ninja uniform used the Substitute Technique to dodge the wooden fragments, but he didn't expect a torrent of bullets, like a steel flood, to already be pouring down. He instinctively formed hand seals, and his body instantly hardened.
Earth Release: Hardening Technique!
Bang, bang, bang, puff, puff, puff…
The first few shots were indeed blocked, but this kind of super firepower, capable of firing nearly a hundred bullets per second, was simply not something that a ninjutsu that turned the body as hard as rock could withstand. His defense was quickly broken, and his body was shattered in mid-air.
Chaos saw the kill notification and immediately turned his firepower back to the street.
But the next moment, the ground vibrated violently, and large areas of the street ground began to crack. Catherine put away her optical binoculars, maintained her defense outside the window with one hand, and quickly moved behind Chaos, patting the back of his head forcefully.
"Someone is casting a high-level ninjutsu, let's retreat first!"
Then, both of them pushed off the ground, flying backward. The wall behind them had already been shattered by the two.
The Reincarnators in other rooms also used their various methods. As a team cooperation mission, they all knew that these ninjas in the darkness were most likely sent by the other Four Great Ninja Villages.
And they, the Reincarnators, were assigned to the Konoha side to retrieve the stolen intelligence, and that stolen intelligence would trigger a new war.
A Reincarnator with a golden ponytail lightly jumped down before the house collapsed. He turned in mid-air, and blue light from the Alchemy Array constantly emanated from his white gloves.
The next moment, he clapped his hands together, and a huge Alchemy Array appeared.
Buzz!
A terrifying wind pressure erupted, and the ground slabs, which had cracked due to the Earth Release ninjutsu, instantly flew up like confetti. The man stood in the strong wind, his expression unrestrained. He raised one hand, and the strong wind carried the stone slabs, house debris, and corpses, dancing wildly in the wind.
In just a moment, he locked onto his target: an Earth Release ninja thirty meters away, pressing one hand on the ground. He was clearly a high-level ninja, who alone had activated a ninjutsu that shook dozens of meters of the street.
The man pointed his right hand towards that direction.
Boom!
A pale-blue tornado, carrying bricks, wood chips, and flesh, directly plowed a huge gully nearly a hundred meters long through the street.
At the end of the gully, only a mangled corpse remained.
The man landed on the ground, with streams of air still swirling around his hands.
Catherine and Chaos, who had just emerged from behind the street, also recognized the other party's identity through this move.
"It's that Wind Lord. Tsk, our side is really full of talents in this mission. I'm getting more and more curious, what kind of intelligence is it that the spatial perspective requires us Reincarnators to stand on Konoha's side together…"
When Catherine saw Wind Lord make his move, she pulled Chaos, who wanted to approach the story character. She felt a hint of something amiss and was willing to give up some reputation benefits, leaving the "first kill" to Wind Lord.
Chaos sniffed, looked to the other side, and frowned,
"A Reincarnator died."
He had a special sense of smell, or rather, a special perception ability. Everyone had a unique scent in his perception, strong, weak, and even more detailed, fighting styles could be smelled.
For example, Tao Bai Bai, just by looking at him, just by smelling a hint of his aura, he was almost choked by the thick scent of blood, making his lungs churn.
And at this moment, the guy emanating an aura of decay and death had the smell of gunpowder on him.
Probably a Reincarnator specializing in shooting, who died under the collapsed house.
Catherine followed the direction Chaos pointed, concentrated her senses, and nodded.
"Yes, the heart and throat were both pierced. He was probably assassinated by a ninja."
Chaos didn't expect that in the first step of the main quest, his side would already have a casualty.
"How disappointing, our side is clearly full of talents, yet someone already died."
He spoke lightly, but his expression became serious. Catherine was the same. Both of them were veteran Reincarnators, having experienced over a dozen missions. To survive until now, their complementary personalities and inherent caution were both indispensable.
Without saying a word, they were already standing back to back.
Catherine spread her hands, and an invisible barrier had already unfolded.
Chaos's expression, on the other hand, became serious, and the fine hairs on his body visibly began to lengthen.
Unlike Chaos and Catherine, Wind Lord's expression was calm. The wind could tell him the location of all enemies.
He was a complete lucky person. His initial trial world was the Fullmetal Alchemist derivative world. As the easiest world to acquire abilities, and encountering a world with systematic learning methods, he successfully obtained corresponding specializations and abilities.
And he invested resources step by step, successfully becoming a powerful alchemist. By his own estimation, if he were in the Fullmetal Alchemist world, it might not be impossible to be rated as a national alchemist.
Moreover, compared to Roy Mustang, the Flame Alchemist, he felt that the Wind Alchemy he controlled was even better.
"Hey, it's alright, I'm from Konoha, sent to meet you."
He casually scanned around, noticing that with his previous attack, the nearest enemies had already retreated over a hundred meters away. In this silent town, it was highly probable that no one could match him in this state.
Well, except for that madman Tao Bai Bai.
As Wind Lord spoke, he had already arrived by the wooden house, but at this moment, he suddenly noticed something unusual.
Before he and the others made their move, so many people died in this small town. The Iwa Ninja who just attacked clearly used high-level ninjutsu with a wide range of terrain destruction, so how could a ninja and a woman hide in a room for so long?
He suddenly felt a chill, and at that very moment, he saw the woman looking at him through the window with a terrified gaze, shaking her head to warn him.
Damn it, the enemy is…
The ninja in the black stealth suit, who had been guarding outside the window, was just protected by Wind Lord. At this moment, he had aimed his kunai at Wind Lord's back and stabbed down forcefully.
Crack~
His force was immense, but it was still blocked by an invisible barrier. Wind Lord narrowly escaped death, his heart pounding violently, and he roared, clapping his hands together.
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A powerful hurricane erupted between himself and this ninja.
Boom~
"Ah!"
The woman's terrified scream rang out. Wind Lord had his back to the window behind him and instantly leaped backward. A series of sudden changes left him no time to spare. He was already preparing to retreat with the woman first.
Bang~
The black-clad ninja, swept by the hurricane, exploded into a puff of smoke. At the same time, a cold laugh appeared behind Wind Lord.
This Reincarnator, with decent enhancement abilities, only now realized the truth of the matter. He barely managed to turn his head, wanting to clap his hands together again, but the crackling lightning behind him instantly pierced through his body.
Screech~
Lightning Release: False Darkness!
Lightning, like a large spear, pierced through Wind Lord's body and swept towards Catherine and Chaos in the distance, but these two were very alert. The moment the attack erupted, they had already pulled away, retreating towards the recently collapsed house.
Rumble~
A huge cloud of smoke accompanied the explosion. As the dust settled, a tall, slightly dark-skinned Cloud Village ninja stood in the street, holding a charred corpse.
"Be careful, three more escaped."
From the darkness on the other side, someone replied,
"Don't worry, they can't escape. We've surrounded this place. Neither that woman nor these Konoha guys can get away."
The Cloud Village Jonin ignored such talk. Although ninjas from different villages could temporarily cooperate when facing Konoha reinforcements, the intelligence rumored to shake Konoha's foundation absolutely could not fall into anyone else's hands.
He immediately used the Body Flicker Technique to reach the top of an intact commercial building. They had almost killed all the people in this town, and Konoha's squad had been wiped out. This mysterious support force, guided by that intelligence, had also been lured out and surrounded by them.
But that woman had strangely disappeared.
He constantly scanned in all directions, and suddenly, his eyelids twitched.
In the supposedly silent battlefield, a very tall man was pulling a female corpse from a pile of bodies, shaking it, and the woman let out a painful groan.
Ayai understood at this moment where the woman had been hiding: she had disguised herself as a corpse, and using the darkness, had been lying among the bodies the entire time.
Because too many people had died and the situation was chaotic, they indeed didn't have time to confirm the identity and physical characteristics of each corpse one by one.
This woman…
No, now was not the time to worry about such issues. That guy should be one of the Konoha reinforcements who were just attacked by explosive tags. Why would he do such a thing…
He actually found the woman himself…
Bai Cangshu picked up the woman, confirmed that she had not sustained fatal injuries, and then put her down.
The reason he wanted to find her was naturally to worry that the woman would be affected by attacks from Reincarnators or those ninjas while playing dead. His special trial mission was not necessarily completely identical to the main missions of those Reincarnators.
If the trial failed because of such a thing, it would be a bit ridiculous.
Therefore, after finding the woman using the Transparent World, he immediately confirmed her condition. If necessary, he would even apply his last page of "Kimi Shini Tamou Koto Nakare" to this story character.
"Alright, you can continue to lie down."
Pingzhong Hua glared at Bai Cangshu, feeling that these ninjas sent by Konoha were utterly foolish.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~
Sounds of rushing air rang out one after another. Two figures instantly appeared beside Bai Cangshu, and two kunai simultaneously shot towards Bai Cangshu's heart and throat.
Bai Cangshu seemed to not react at all, standing still. Ayai, who had already prepared for the other party to dodge, watched in astonishment as the two kunai accurately hit. He and his clone also stabbed their kunai into the other party's vital points.
Clang! Clang!
The sound of metal clashing rang out. As Ayai's tiger's mouth split, his figure instantly exploded into smoke. He immediately used the Substitute Technique to regain distance.
But the other party remained standing still.
Bai Cangshu shook his neck, somewhat disappointed.
"Ninjas, don't just charge straight forward like that. Continue to use your cunning calculations."
"Come, try everything you can, and kill me."